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By all accounts, poverty in Chile has declined dramatically over the last 20 years, with the national headcount ratio … declining from nearly 40% in 1987 to below 14% in 2006. Due to data limitations, most research on poverty in Chile has focused …
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from non-representative surveys yield imprecise estimates of poverty and inequality. This paper therefore estimates poverty … and inequality using poverty mapping methods. In contrast to previous studies, however, we use ethnicity rather than …, but that inequality rates are also lower for indigenous groups. These reliable estimates of poverty and inequality may …
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As the Chilean government seeks to reduce both poverty and inequality through cash transfers to poor households, local … evidence that cash transfers had highly variable impacts on poverty and inequality at the county level in 2002. In particular … considerable reductions in poverty and inequality. In addition, the strength of the governing mandate weakly influences the …
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As the Chilean government seeks to reduce both poverty and inequality through cash transfers to poor households, local … evidence that cash transfers had highly variable impacts on poverty and inequality at the county level in 2002. In particular … considerable reductions in poverty and inequality. In addition, the strength of the governing mandate weakly influences the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013153469
Assessing whether distributional changes are "pro-poor" has become increasingly widespread in academic and policy circles. Starting from relatively general ethical axioms, this paper proposes simple graphical methods to test whether distributional changes are indeed pro-poor. Pro-poor standards...
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This paper analyses the determinants of household welfare in the Northwest region of Tanzania using microlevel cross section data. Despite having gone through a series of structural adjustment programs in the late-1980s, Tanzania is still considered one of the poorest countries in Sub-Saharan...
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in poverty and income inequality, up to 2010 or 2011 in most countries. We provide measures of the levels and trends in … income inequality, and inequality among those with top incomes. …
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In general, there seems to be a basic consensus on how to measure poverty and inequality. For this reason there is a … general agreement with respect to their levels and evolution over time, with respect to Chile and also to the city of Santiago …. Additionally, in the case of Chile there are no reliable data to consider its evolution over time. Nevertheless, the general …
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Absolute poverty has dropped markedly in Bulgaria but income inequality has increased substantially in the aftermath of … the GFC. This increase is due to a rise in market income inequality that was compounded by a reduction in fiscal … redistributive efficiency. The COVID-19 crisis is likely to deepen income inequality, increasing the room for redistributive policies …
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paper analyzes the sensitivity of inequality and poverty indicators to the adjustments made by ECLAC so as to enable a … consistency between what is reported by the CASEN survey and the National Accounts figures in Chile. The results reveal that this … leads to important changes in the top-end of the distribution and to an overestimation in the main inequality indicators in …
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